Debut of stage production of P&P gets mixed reviews
The stage production of Pride and Prejudice that is currently touring the U.K. opened last night at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre to mixed reviews. Most reports are concerned with the appearance of scandal-dogged television presenter John Leslie as Wickham.
The snarkiest report, with a distinct Austenian flavor, comes from the Scotsman:
IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a fallen TV presenter in possession of a part in a straight theatrical drama must be in want of a new career.
And so it was that last night John Leslie, disgraced former presenter of Blue Peter, took to the boards of a provincial theatre as a minor character in a very clunky adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
The other truth universally acknowledged is that where such a fallen TV presenter goes, there go a pack of journalists.
